You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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